Major Pakistani police operation against Kashmiris.

Support the right to self-determination for the Sahrawi people!

Against racism and neoliberalism.

The year in revolutionary review

By Imran Javiad Hundreds of thousands of farmers from all over India started the Delhi Chalo (Let us go to Delhi) March on November 25 at the behest of the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, which consists of 300 farmers’ organisations. The march is supported by rural labourers, transportation workers and important sectors for […]

By Jürgen Roth After weeks of wrangling with Poland and Hungary, the German Council presidency just managed to avoid the EU’s next looming disaster. On Thursday, December 10, 2020, the European Council summit, the meeting of European heads of state and government, agreed on a compromise. The budget with multi-annual financial framework for the years […]

By Marc Lassalle – PARIS The second wave of the pandemic, combined with a second month-long lockdown, are certainly far from the best conditions to organise a fight back against President Emmanuel Macron’s draconian new global security law. However, his government is suddenly being confronted with major resistance: more than one hundred thousand marched on […]

#WhyDoWeNeedAKing

Mike Pompeo gives the green light to Israeli settlements.

Crisis and conspiracy.

International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International The League for the Fifth International sends internationalist solidarity to the International Marxist Tendency whose member, Amar Fayaz, was whisked away by cops and armed men in plain clothes in the early hours of November 9. The abduction took place in Jamshoro, Sindh, which is located near the […]

By Bernie McAdam On October 7, a mass revolt of Nigerian youth was triggered after a video showing police officers from the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, killing a teenager went viral. The guy who took the video was arrested and mass mobilisations in the streets ensued, using the hashtag #END SARS. The police used tear […]

Refugees still stranded on Lesbos.

International Secretariat, League for the Fifth International Joe Biden looks certain to be the next President of the USA but, despite a record turnout of some 160 million voters, this was no “blue tidal wave”. On the contrary, the Democratic party failed to win the Senate and even lost seats in the House of Representatives. […]

The Bolivian working class and indigenous peoples must ensure their electoral victory doesn't end in class collaboration.

From protests to the referendum and beyond.

Millions of US citizens vote today in an election which the whole world is watching.

Return the Chagos Islands to Mauritius.

Mass protests in Poland for abortion rights.

By Workers’ Standpoint, Austrian section of the League for the Fifth International In the recent local elections in Vienna, the biggest city in Austria with about one third of the country’s population, our Austrian section was part of a new left election project called LINKS (German for “left”). These elections, although only regional, are comparatively […]

Anti-regime protests in Belarus are continuing for a tenth week, but the regime has consolidated control with the help of the police and military.

100 year anniversary.

Protests in Colombia met with police violence

Fires have destroyed the Moria “camp”.

Privatisation, unemployment and industrial unrest.

By Jaqueline Katherina Singh Internationally, women make up 70 percent of the staff in social and care professions. According to the German Institute for Economic Research, the proportion of women in the so-called systemically important occupational groups in Germany is just under 75 percent. In this article, we want to give an overview of how […]

By Urte March The uprising in Belarus has reached a decisive point, as President Alexander Lukashenko told workers demanding his resignation and democratic elections, “as long as you don’t kill me, there won’t be any other elections”. A wave of popular protests and strikes has swept the country since Lukashenko claimed a landslide victory in […]

By Dave Stockton A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia for ten days after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announced the cancellation of elections scheduled for September 6. The movement is backed by the Movement towards Socialism, MAS, […]

By Dilara Lorin and Martin Suchanek The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. An estimated 300,000, over 10 percent of the population of Lebanon’s capital, have been rendered homeless and grain silos destroyed […]

By Wilhelm Schulz It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona “sceptics” and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. The organisers of the so-called hygiene demonstrations mobilised from all over Germany to celebrate the supposed end of the corona pandemic. The number of new daily infections recorded worldwide is […]